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Pandora Media Inc., the biggest online radio service, raised the price of its advertising-free Pandora (P) One option for some users, citing rising royalty costs. Listeners who now pay $36 a year for the service will be asked to pay $3.99 a month, Pa...

Apple is diving into streaming music with a new service called iTunes Radio, the company announced at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco today. Similar to Pandora, iTunes Radio will create themed Internet radio stations based...

Turn on and tune out: More young people (ages 13 to 35) are listening to Internet radio in their cars, despite the broad and ready availability of AM/FM radio. According to a study released Tuesday by the NPD Group, that demographics spends 23% of we...

A new music station on digital streaming service Slacker plays only 50 songs -- the ones your Facebook friends cringe at when they see them in their News Feeds. The audio ad for "The 50 Most Embarrassing Facebook Songs" station says it all: "All the ...

Apple is on course to launch a Pandora-style customizable streaming radio service early next year, if a report from Bloomberg is accurate. The report, which cites several sources who asked for anonymity, states that Apple has "intensified" negotiatio...

A recent study has found that Internet radio listenership is on the rise -- and while digital device usage may have something to do with this increase, it's harder to pinpoint social media's role. The study, commissioned by the digital audio advertis...

iHeartRadio has just released a major update to its iPad app adding support for the retina display, custom radio stations and improved Facebook integration. Last fall, Clear Channel released a major update to iHeartRadio, giving users the ability to ...

Myxer has entered the crowded Internet radio market with Myxer Social Radio, an app aimed at providing a music-listening experience where you're never alone. The app offers several interactive components (see gallery below), including the "Song Stori...

Pandora has expanded from music to jokes with the addition of 10,000 comedy clips from more than 700 comedians to its Internet radio service. Like its Music Genome Project, Pandora's Comedy Genome Project analyzes the content of each clip for style, ...

Ever surf on over to Pandora to create a new station and find yourself stumped as to what artist or song to create a playlist around? Well, now the Internet radio service has added a new option for less decisive users: Genre. Until today, Pandora has...

The BBC reports that Warner Music Group has said that it isn't planning to offer songs to free music-streaming services like Last.fm or Spotify moving forward. Warner Music CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. said, "Free streaming services are clearly not net pos...

Derrick Ashong became a minor Internet celebrity after a video of him talking politics at a 2008 Democratic debate went viral and got more than a million hits. Now he's going to have his own live radio talk show on Oprah's XM and SIRIUS radio station...

The Pandora music streaming service is a great way to quickly tap into some internet radio stations, but it's also a powerful tool for finding new music you might be interested in. With a little extra care and feeding, Pandora can offer up some new l...

Earlier this month, a deal between Internet radio providers and the record labels at long last provided some clarity around the long-term prospects for the medium. Big players like Pandora now pay a per-song fee or percent of revenue on each song str...

Internet radio’s future has been somewhat uncertain since 2007, when a significant hike in royalties threatened the viability of companies like Pandora and Last.fm. Additionally, many of these services remain either inaccessible or only available for...

If you use Last.fm and don't live in the US, UK, or Germany, you might need to get your wallet out. The online radio service has announced that users outside of those countries (their 3 most popular) will need to start paying €3.00 (about $4.40 USD) ...

Already one of the most popular applications for iPhone, Internet radio service Pandora has started to branch out to other mobile platforms. Late last year, they launched an application for Windows Mobile, and today, the company has quietly launched ...

It took a concerted effort by Pandora, plus a fairly substantial level of public attention at the grassroots, as well as some lobbying by National Public Radio, but by late evening, many hours after the original floor call was intended to be made, th...

Radio One Llama is a little different, which isn't that surprising considering its quirky name. They call themselves a radio streaming service but a better description would be an Internet radio station search engine that lets you save your favorite ...

The Internet is full of streaming radio options these days. Music junkie that I am, I check each option out from MOG to Last.fm to Grooveshark and everything in between. A new entry in the growing niche is Highnote. After taking a tour of Highnote, i...

Choosing a radio station was once a right of passage for the American adolescence. It was what bound you to your friends, disassociated you from your parents and attracted to you whatever partner had the misfortune to have you. Regional in range, det...

MeeMix, internet radio site somewhat similar to Pandora, lets you quickly find new music you like. It goes one step further than Pandora, though, and lets you create custom stations which can be shared with other users within the MeeMix network. Also...

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